Method of and means for agitating contents of receptacles



G. W. CHRISTIANS.

METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR AGITA TING CONTENTS OF RECEPTACLES.

APPLICATION HLED )AN. 19, 1920.

1,366,874, Patented Jan. 25, 1921.

l t j w l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. GHRISTIANS, OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 25, 1921.

Application filed January 19, 1920. Serial No. 352,301.

To all whom it may concemt:

Be it known that I. Gnonon W. Cirrus- TIANS, a citizen of the United States residing at Chattanooga, in the county of l-lamilton and State of Tennessee, have lnvented certain new and useful Im rovements in Methods of and Means for gitatln Contents of Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in an apparatus and method foragitating liquids and it is particularly designed for agitating and mixing the contents of filled and capped bottles.

In bottling liquids composed of syrupy substances and ordinary liquids, the syrupy material is placed in the bottle first and the ordinary liquid is then introduced. It frequently happens that the substances placed in the container do not mix and consequently when the contents of a receptacle is poured out by the user, the ordinar liquid will first enter the drinking receptac e and the syrupy substance will follow. My aim is to provide a method and means for agitating the filled and capped bottles to cause the contents to be lntimately mixed and form a homogeneous mass.

Therefore, the main object of the invention is to furnish a method and apparatus for causing filled, capped bottles to move from a position where they rest on their bottoms, to a position in whlch they rest on their crowns, and then from the latter position to a position in which they again rest on their bottoms. With my apparatus a bottle will be thrown from standing position and turned until its head strikes a resilient ad and this pad will rebound and cause the bottle to again assume a standing position. As a result of these movements, the liquid in the bottle will be violently agitated.

With the foregoing object outlined and with other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the novel features hereinafter described in detail, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and more particularly pointed out in the a pended claims.

Referring to the rawingz- Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of my improved apparatus.

ig. 2 is a top plan view of the same.

In the drawing 1 represents an ordinary endless belt or conveyer employed in removing filled and capped bottles from a bottles along the conveyer and through the agitating mechanism. These side guides are secured together by means of horizontal tle-bars 4 and 5 each of which is covered with a resilient pad 6. The bar 4 is arranged just beyond the outer end of the wheel 7 and it is so located relatively to the conveyer that a bottle in leaving the conveyor will strike the bar with its lower portion and this will cause its upper heavier portion to fall to the right, as shown by the arrows 8. From this position the bottle continues to fall head downwardly, until its crownstrikes a resilient pad 9 and in falling downwardly, the bottom portion of the bottle will move to the right, as shown at 10 in Fig. 1. The resilient pad under the force of the blow delivered by the falling bottle, will be caused to rebound and thereby throw the bottle upwardly and to the right until its heavier portion will turn about the bar 5 and guide the bottle into the position occupied by the bottle 11 in Fig. 1. The bottle thus treated will land in a standing osition upon a conveyer table 12, which is intermittently rotated to provide an unoccupied space for the following bottle.

By this mechanism, a bottle will be moved from standing position through a half circle or approximately a half circle, onto its head and it will then be thrown through another half circle and land on the conveyer 12 in a standing position. The bottle, durin these movements, will be turned in two di :Eerent directions and will be struck a violent blow, in consequence of which the liquid will be subjected to a shaking movement, that will cause its ingredients to be intimately mixed.

I am aware that various modifications and changes may be made in the construction shown, without departing from the s irit of the invention as set forth in the 0 lowing claims.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A, method of agitating filling and capped bottles, consistlng in throwing the bottle from an n right position through an approximate hal circle, into a position in which its upper end occupies the lowermost position, and then moving the bottle from the latter position through a half cirole and causing it to turn to a position in which its lower end occupied the lowermost position.

2. A method of agitating the contents of filled and closed receptacles, consisting in turning the receptacle upside down and causing one of its ends to strike a reslllent surface and then causing a reverse movement of the receptacle to move said receptwcle into the position which it original y occupied.

3. The combination with a feeding and receivin mechanism, of means located between t e same for causing a filled and capped rece tacle to be turned upslde down,

struck a bow, and then returned to itsoriginal standing position upon the receiving means.

4. The combination with feeding means and a receiving means, of a resilient pad located between the same, and means for causing receptacles leaving the feedlng means to be turned upside down and landed with one end upon the resilient pad, the rebound of said pad causing the receptacle to be moved away from the same, and means for turning the receptacle after it leaves the resilient pad, to cause the receptacle to assume its original position upon the receiving means.

5. The combination with a feedin conveyer and a receiving means, of gui es extending alongside of said conveyer for. uiding receptacles alon the conveyer and orming a frame, a resi lent pad located in said frame, a bar extending across the frame and so located relative to the conveyor, to cause a receptacle leaving the conveyer to have its lower portion strike said bar, said bar causing the receptacle to turn, be reversed and land upon the resilient pad, and a second bar located between the resilient pad and the receiving means, to cause the receptacle after striking the pad to be turned or reversed and occupy its original position upon the receiving means.

GEORGE W. CHRISTIAN S.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,366,874. granted January 25,

1921, upon the application of George W. Christians, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, for

an improvement in Methods of and Means for Agiteting Contents of Receptacles, an error eppeem in the printed specification requiring correction as follows:

Page 1, line 10?, claim 1, for the word "filling read filled; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 1st day of March, A. 1)., 1921.

[Benn] L. B. MANN,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

